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Elizabeth Cheney (Cokayne)

Also Known As: "[born: Elizabeth Cokayne]; Twice married: 1) Boetler; 2) Cheney; Elizabeth Cocayne", "Elizabeth Cockayne", "Elizabeth Cockayne-e"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Bury Hatley, Bedfordshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: September 25, 1473 (78-79)
Towcester, Northamptonshire, England (United Kingdom)
Place of Burial: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
Immediate Family:

Daughter of Sir John Cokayne, Chief Baron of Exchequer and Baroness Ida Cokayne
Wife of Sir Philip Boteler and Sir Lawrence Cheney, Escheator of Bedford & Buckingham
Mother of Edward Boteler; Philip Boteler, Esq.; Anne Watkins; Elizabeth Cheney, Lady Say; Sir Lawrence Cheney, II and 4 others
Sister of Sir Reginald Cokayne; Henry Cokayne; John Cokayne; Thomas Cokayne and Margaret Dodyngsells

Occupation: 8 children
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About Elizabeth Cheney

  • Elizabeth Cokayne1,2,3,4,5,6
  • F, #16252, b. circa 1390, d. after 1439
  • Father John Cokayne, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Justice of the Common Pleas2,7,8 d. 22 May 1429
  • Mother Ida Grey2,7,8 d. 1 Jun 1426
  • Elizabeth Cokayne was born circa 1390 at of Bury Hatley, Bedfordshire, England.2,4 She married Sir Philip le Boteler, son of Sir Philip le Boteler and Elizabeth, before 1412 at of Berwardecote, Brunaldeston, & Hatton, Derbyshire, England; They had 2 sons (Edward; & Philip, Gent.).2,3,4 Elizabeth Cokayne and Lawrence Cheney, Esq., Sheriff of Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire, Escheator of Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire obtained a marriage license on 13 December 1421; They had 1 son (Sir John) and 2 daughters (Elizabeth, wife of Frederick Tilney, Esq. & of Sir John Say; & Mary, wife of John Allington).2,3,4,5 Elizabeth Cokayne died after 1439.3,4
  • Family 1 Sir Philip le Boteler b. 1388, d. 5 Nov 1420
  • Child
    • Philip Boteler, Gent., Sheriff of Hertfordshire & Essex+3,9,4,10 b. 15 Aug 1414, d. 28 Jul 1453
  • Family 2 Lawrence Cheney, Esq., Sheriff of Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire, Escheator of Bedfordshire & Buckinghamshire b. c 1396, d. 31 Dec 1461
  • Children
    • Elizabeth Cheney+11,4,12 b. c 1422, d. 25 Sep 1473
    • Sir John Cheney, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire+13,3,4 b. c 1424, d. 14 Jul 1489
  • Citations
  • [S4593] Unknown author, Wallop Family, Vol. 4, lines 226, 254, p. 117.
  • [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 206.
  • [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 444.
  • [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 161.
  • [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 508.
  • [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 126.
  • [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 443.
  • [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 160.
  • [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 53.
  • [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 634.
  • [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 129.
  • [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 70.
  • [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 206-207.
  • From: http://www.our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p541.h... ________________
  • Elizabeth Cokayne1
  • F, #3457, b. circa 1388
  • Last Edited=11 Apr 2012
  • Consanguinity Index=0.01%
  • Elizabeth Cokayne was born circa 1388 at Bury Hatley, Bedfordshire, England.1 She was the daughter of Sir John Cokayne and Ida Grey.1 She married Sir Philip le Boteler.1 She and Sir Lawrence Cheney obtained a marriage license on 13 December 1421.2
  • From 13 December 1421, her married name became Cheyne.1
  • Children of Elizabeth Cokayne and Sir Lawrence Cheney
    • Elizabeth Cheney+
    • Sir John Cheney2
    • Mary Cheney+2 b. 1432, d. 25 Sep 1473
  • Citations
  • [S62] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry (Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: Genealogical Publishing Co, 2005), volume I, page 443. Hereinafter cited as Magna Carta Ancestry.
  • [S62] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, volume I, page 444.
  • From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p346.htm#i3457 ____________________
  • Plantagenet ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=p_yzpuWi4sgC&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq...
  • Pg. 206
  • 10. IDA GREY, married before 1394 JOHN COKAYNE, of Berwardecote, Brunaldeston, and Hatton, Derbyshire, Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Justice of the Common Pleas, Recorder of London, Chief Steward of the Duchy of Lancaster (Northern parts), 2nd son of John Cokayne, Knt., of Ashbourne Derbyshire, by his wife Cecily. They has four sons, Reginald, Henry, John, and Thomas (clerk), and two daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret (wife of Edmund Odingsells, Knt.). he was named one of the executors of the 1397 will of John of Gaunt, Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster. They received a papal indult to choose a confessor in 1405. In 1409 he has license to hunt in Sutton and Potton, Bedfordshire. In 1417 he purchased the manor of Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire from Edward Boteler, Knt. His wife, Ida, died 1 Jun 1426. JOHN COKAYNE died testate (P.C.C. 12 Luffenam) 22 May 1429, and was buried at Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire.
  • 11. ELIZABETH COKAYNE, married (1st) PHILIP LE BOTELER (or BUTLER), Knt., of Watton Woodhall and Sele (in St. Andrew Hertford), Hertfordshire, and Bromham, Bedfordshire, son and heir of Philip le Boteler, Knt., of Watton Woodhall, Herfordshire, by his wife, Elizabeth. He was born in 1388. They had two sons, Edward and Philip, Gent. He was heir in 1412 to his cousin, Edward le Boteler, Knt., by which he inherited the manors of Pulverbatch, Shropshire, Norbury, Staffordshire, Higham-Gobion, Bedfordshire, etc. SIR PHILIP LE BOTELER died 5 Nov. 1420 and was buried at Watton, Herfordshire. She married (2nd) by license dated 13 Dec. 1421 LAURENCE CHEYNE (or CHENEY), Esq., of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, Irchester, Northamptonshire, etc., Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, Knight of the Shire for Cambridgeshire, Escheator of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 2nd but eldest surviving son of William Cheyne, Knt., of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, by Katherine, daughter and heiress of Laurence de Pabenham, Knt. He was born about 1396 (aged 40 in 1436). They had one son, John, Knt., and two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary (wife of John Allington). She was living in 1422. LAURENCE CHEYNE, Esq., died testate 31 Dec. 1461, and was buried at Barnwell Priory.
  • Child of Elizabeth Cokayne, by Philip le Boteler, Knt.:
    • i. PHILIP BOTELER, Gent., of Watton Woodhall, Herfordshire, married ISABEL WILLOUGHBY [see LOVETT 7].
  • Children of Elizabeth Cokayne, by Laurence Cheyne, Esq.:
    • i. JOHN CHEYNE, Knt. [see next].
    • ii. ELIZABETH CHEYNE, died 25 Sept. 1473; married (1st) FREDERICK TILNEY, Knt., of Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, Boston, Lincolnshire, Horham and Wotton's (in Stadbroke), Suffolk, etc., son and heir of Philip Tilney, Gent., of Boston, Lilncolnshire (descendant of Geoffrey Plantagenet), by Isabel, daughter and heiress of Edmund Thorpe, 5th Lord Thorpe [see ROCHFORD 12 for his ancestry]. They had one daughter, Elizabeth. SIR FREDERICK TILNEY died before 1447, and was buried at Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, She married (2nd) before 1449 (as his 1st wife) JOHN SAY, Knt., of Baas (in Broxbourne), Little Berkhampstead, and Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, and Lawford, Essex, King's Serjeant, Coroner of the Marshalsea, Yeoman of the Chamber & Crown, Keeper of Westminster Palace, Squire of the Body, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Privy Councillor, Under Treasurer of England, Keeper of the Great Wardrobe, Knight of the Shire for Cambridgeshire and for Hertfordshire, Speaker of the House of Commons. They had three sons, William Knt., Thomas, Knt., and Leonard, and four daughters, Anne, Elizabeth (wife of Thomas Sampson), Katherine (wife of Thomas Bassingbourne), and Mary (wife of Philip Calthorpe, Knt.). he married (2nd) before 9 Oct. 1474 AGNES DANVERS, widow successively of Thomas Baldington (died 22 August 1435), John Fray, Knt., Chief Baron of Exchequer (died shortly before 3 July 1461), and John Wenlock, Knt., K.G., Lord Wenlock (died 4 May 1471), daughter of John Danvers, Knt., of Ipswell, Oxfordshire, by Alice, daughter and heiress of William Verney, They had no issue. SIR JOHN SAY died testate (P.C.C. 35 Wattys) 12 April 1478, and was buried with his 1st wife Elizabeth at Broxbourne, Hertfordshire. His widow Agnes left a will dated 11 June 1478, and proved 16 July 1478. She was buried near ner 2nd husband in St. Bartholemew the Less, Smithfield.
    • Pg. 207
    • Child of Elizabeth Cheyne, by Frederick Tilney, Knt.:
      • .... etc.
  • 12. JOHN CHEYNE, Knt., of Fen Ditton and Deuney, Cambridgeshire, and Irchester, Northamptonshire, King's Serjeant, Knight of the Shire for Cambridgeshire, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, lawyer, son and heir, born about 1424 (aged 38 in 1462). He was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1446. He married before 1449 ELIZABETH REMPSTON, 1st daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Rempston, Knt., of Beckering and Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, by Alice, daughter and heiress of Thomas Beckering, of Beckering (in Holton), Lincolnshire. She was born about 1418 (aged 40 in 1458). They had two sons, Thomas, Knt., and William, and four daughters, Mary (wife of John Allington), Elizabeth, Katherine (wife of Henry Barley), and Anne (wife of John Appleyard). SIR JOHN CHEYNE died 13 or 14 July 1489, leaving will dated 13 July 1488, proved 21 July 1489, requesting burial at Barnwell Priory.
  • Child of John Cheyne, Knt., by Elizabeth Rempston:
    • .... etc. _________________
  • Edith GREY
  • Born: ABT 1368, Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales
  • Died: 1 Jun 1426
  • Father: Reginald De GREY (2° B. Grey of Ruthin)
  • Mother: Alianor Le STRANGE (B. Grey of Ruthin)
  • Married: John COKAYNE (B. Cokayne) ABT 1400, Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire, England
  • Children:
    • 1. Elizabeth COKAYNE (b. ABT 1404, Bury, Hatley, Bedfordshire, England) (m.1 Sir Phillip Butler - m.2 Sir Lawrence Cheney)
    • 2. Reginald COKAYNE
    • 3. Henry COKAYNE
    • 4. John COKAYNE
    • 4. Thomas COKAYNE
    • 4. Margaret COKAYNE
  • From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/GREY3.htm#Edith GREY1 _____________________
  • ACCORDING TO PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY AND SEVERAL OTHER SOURCES THE DATES, PLACES, PARENTS JAMES BUTLER AND ANNE WELLES LISTED ON TUDORPLACE FOR PHILIP WHO MARRIED ELIZABETH COKAYNE ARE NOT CORRECT
  • Phillip BUTLER (Sir)
  • Born: ABT 1398, Woodhall, Hertfordshire, England
  • Died: 5 Nov 1418
  • Father: James BUTLER (3° E. Ormonde)
  • Mother: Anne WELLES (C. Ormonde)
  • Married: Elizabeth COCKAYNE (b. ABT 1404, Bury, Hatley, Bedfordshire, England) (dau. of John Cokayne, Baron of Exchequer and Edith Grey) (m.2 Sir Lawrence Cheney)
  • Children:
    • 1. Phillip BUTLER
  • From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BUTLER2.htm#Phillip BUTLER (Sir)1 __________________
  • Lawrence CHENEY (Sir)
  • Born: 1396, Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, England
  • Died: 30 Dec 1461
  • Buried: Priory, Barnwell, England
  • Notes: Escheator of Bedford & Buckingham. Sheriff of Cambridge and Huntingdon. Descendant of Charlemagne
  • Father: William CHENEY (Sir Knight)
  • Mother: Catherine PABENHAM
  • Married: Elizabeth COCKAYNE (b. ABT 1404, Bury, Hatley, Bedfordshire, England) (dau. of John Cokayne, Baron of Exchequer and Edith Grey) ABT 1418, Bury Hatley, Bedfordshire, England
  • Children:
    • 1. Anne CHENEY
    • 2. Mary CHENEY
    • 3. John CHENEY (Sir Knight)
    • 4. Catherine CHENEY
    • 5. Elizabeth CHENEY
  • From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/CHENEY.htm#Lawrence CHENEY (Sir)1 _____________________
  • The Life of Saint Brychan: King of Brycheiniog and Family By Brian Starr, Pg. 47
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=-zGOQAIlSnUC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=P...
  • + John Cokayne b: Abt 1365 in Ashbourne Hall, Derbyshire, England d: 22 May 1427 in Hatley Cokayne, Bedfordshire, Tngland m: Abt 1405
    • 34 Elizabeth Cokayne b: Abt 1395 in Bury Hatley, Bedfordshire, England
    • + Philip Boteler b: Abt 1388 in Woodhall, Hereford, Eng
      • 35 Philip Boteler b: 15 Aug 1414
      • + Isabel (Nmn-Philip) Boteler _________________________
  • Elizabeth Cheney (April 1422 – 25 September 1473) was an English aristocrat, who, by dint of her two marriages, was the great-grandmother of Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, and Catherine Howard, three of the wives of King Henry VIII of England, thus making her great-great-grandmother to King Edward VI, the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, and Elizabeth I, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Her first husband was Sir Frederick Tilney, and her second husband was Sir John Say, Speaker of the House of Commons. She produced a total of nine children from both marriages.
  • Born in Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire in April 1422, she was the eldest child of Laurence or Lawrence Cheney or Cheyne, Esq. (c. 1396 – 1461), High Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Elizabeth Cokayn or Cokayne[1] She had three younger sisters, Anne, wife of John Appleyard; Mary, wife of John Allington; Catherine, wife of Henry Barley, and one brother, Sir John Cheney who married Elizabeth Rempston, by whom he had issue. Sir John Cheney and his wife are ancestors of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. She had two half-brothers by her mother's first marriage to Sir Philip Butler.[citation needed]
  • Her paternal grandparents were Sir William Cheney and Katherine Pabenham, and her maternal grandparents were Sir John Cockayne, Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Ida de Grey, the daughter of Reginald Grey, 2nd Baron Grey de Ruthyn and Eleanor Le Strange of Blackmere.[2]
  • On an unknown date, Elizabeth Cheney married her first husband Sir Frederick Tilney, of Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk, and Boston, Lincolnshire. He was the son of Sir Philip Tilney and Isabel Thorpe. They made their principal residence at Ashwellthorpe Manor.[1] The couple had one daughter:
    • Elizabeth Tilney (before 1445 – 4 April 1497), married firstly in about 1466, Sir Humphrey Bourchier, by whom she had three children; and secondly on 30 April 1472, Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, who later became the 2nd Duke of Norfolk, by whom she had nine children. These children included Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, Elizabeth Howard, mother of Anne Boleyn, and Lord Edmund Howard, father of Catherine Howard.[citation needed]
  • Sir Frederick Tilney died in 1445, leaving their young daughter Elizabeth as heiress to his estates. Shortly before 1 December 1446, Elizabeth Cheney married secondly Sir John Say, of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, Speaker of the House of Commons, and a member of the household of King Henry VI. He was a member of the embassy, led by William de la Pole, which was sent to France in 1444 to negotiate with King Charles VII for the marriage between King Henry and Margaret of Anjou.[3] Her father settled land worth fifty marks clear per annum upon the couple and their issue before Candlemas, 1453. They made their home at Broxbourne, Hertfordshire.[3]
  • Sir John Say and Elizabeth had three sons and four daughters:
    • Sir William Say (1452- 1529), of Baas (in Broxbourne), Bedwell (in Essendon), Bennington, Little Berkhampstead, and Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, Lawford, Essex, Market Overton, Rutland, etc., Burgess (M.P.) for Plympton, Knight of the Shire for Hertfordshire, Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset, 1478–9, Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire, 1482–3, Justice of the Peace for Hertfordshire, 1486–1506, and, in right of his 1st wife, of East Lydford, Radstock, Spaxton, Wellesleigh, and Wheathill, Somerset, and, in right of his 2nd wife, of Wormingford Hall (in Wormingford), Essex, Great Munden, Hertfordshire, etc. He married (1st) before 18 November 1472 (date of letters of attorney) Genevieve Hill, daughter/heiress of John Hill, of Spaxton, Somerset. She was still alive in 1478. He married (2nd) shortly after 18 April 1480 Elizabeth Fray, widow of Sir Thomas Waldegrave, by whom he had two daughters, Mary Say and Elizabeth Say.[3]
      • Mary, the eldest daughter married Henry Bourchier, 1st Earl of Essex and 6th Baron Bourchier, by whom she had one daughter, Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier.[citation needed]
    • Thomas Say, of Liston Hall, Essex.
    • [Master] Leonard Say, clerk, Rector of Spaxton, Somerset. See Testamenta Eboracensia, 4 (Surtees Soc. 53) (1869): 86–88 (will of Leonard Say, clerk).
    • Anne Say (died 1478/1494), married Henry Wentworth, K.B., of Nettlestead, Suffolk, Goxhill, Lincolnshire, Parlington and Pontefract, Yorkshire, and of London, Esquire of the Household, Knight of the Body, Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk, 1481–82, Sheriff of Yorkshire, 1489–90, 1492, Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire, 1491–92, by whom she had issue, including Margery Wentworth, mother of Jane Seymour.
    • Mary Say, married Sir Philip Calthorpe, Knt., by whom she had issue.
    • Margaret Say, married Thomas Sampson, Esq.
    • Katherine Say, married Thomas Bassingbourne.
  • From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cheney_(1422%E2%80%931473) _________________
  • Ancestral roots of certain American colonists who came to America before ... By Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard, Kaleen E
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=3F9nG8aFJ7MC&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132&dq...
  • Pg.132 ____________________
  • Genealogical memoirs of the extinct family of Chester of Chicheley By Robert Edmond Chester- Waters
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=oGMBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA156&lpg=PA156&dq...
  • Pg.156
  • SIR PHILIP BOTELER, KT. of Watton Woodhall succeeded his cousin Sir Edward in 1413 in the estates entailed in 1312 by their common ancestors Ralph Boteler and Hawise Gobion.(3) He died 6th Nov. 1421,(32) and his widow Elizabeth married secondly Laurence Cheney Esq. of Fen Ditton, by whom she was the ancestor of the Dukes of Norfolk, the Peytons of Iselham, and other noble families.(33) She was the daughter of John Cokayne, who puchased from Sir Edward Boteler the manor of Bury Hatley in Beds, and was one of the executors of John of Gaunt, who calls him in his will 'chief steward of my lands.'(34) He was raised on the accession of Henry IV. to the office of Chief Baron of the Exchequer, which he held during the whole of this reign; but he was also a Judge of Common Pleas from 1406 until his death in 1429.(35) He was the second son of John Cokayne of Ashbourne in Derbyshire by Cecilia Irton his wife, and is confused by Foss with his nephew of the same name who died in 1438. (35) He married Ida, daughter of Reginald Lord Grey of Ruthyn by Eleanor le Strange, who died in 1424, leaving four sons and two daughters.(29) Their surviving children were:
    • 1. REGINALD, son and heir, ancestor of the Cokaynes of Cokayne Hatley.
    • 2. HENRY occurs with his wife Grace in his father's Will.
    • 3. JOHN. 4. THOMAS, a priest, who was presented to the rectory of Pulverbatch by his brother-in-law Philip Boteler on 19th July 1413.(36)
    • 1. ELIZABETH, married Sir Philip Boteler, Kt., and secondly Laurence Cheney Esq., and had issue by both marriages.
    • 2. MARGARET, married Sir Edmond d'Odingsells Kt. of Warwickshire.
  • John Cokayne died in 1429, and desired by his Will to be buried at Bury Hatley, but his monument stands in Ashbourne Church, and is accurately figured by Dugdale as a specimen of the judicial robes worn at that period.(37)
  • .... etc. ________________
  • Magna Carta ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families By Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham
  • http://books.google.com/books?id=wHZcIRMhSEMC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=W...
  • Pg.180
  • 8. ELIZABETH COKAYNE married (1st) PHILIP LE BOTELER (or BUTLER), Knt, of Watton Woodhall (in Watton at Stone) and Sele (in St. Andrew Hertford), Hertfordshire, and Bromham, Bedfordshire, son and heir of Philip Le Boteler, Knt., of Watton Woodhall (in Watton at Stone), Herfordshire, by his wife Elizabeth. he was born in 1388. They had two sons, Edward and Philip, Gent. He was heir in 1412 to his cousin, Edward le Boteler, Knt., by which he inherited the manors of Pulverbatch, Shropshire, Norbury, Staffordshire, Higham-Gobion, Bedfordshire, etc. SIR PHILIP LE BOTELER died 5 Nov. 1420 and was buried at Watton, Hertfordshire. She married (2nd) by license dated 13 Dec. 1421 LAURENCE CHEYNE (or CHENEY), Esq., of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, Irchester, Northamptonshire, etc., Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, Knight of the Shire for Cambridgeshire, Escheator of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire, 2nd but eldest surviving son of William Cheyne, Knt., of Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, by Katherine, daughter and heiress of Laurence de Pabenham, Knt. He was born about 1396 (aged 40 in 1436). They had one son, John, Knt., and two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary (wife of John Allington). He and his wife Elizabeth, were legatees in the 1427 will of her father, John Cokayne. LAURENCE CHEYNE, Esq., died testate 31 Dec. 1461, and was buried at Barnwell Priory. _________________________________
  • Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: May 31 2018, 23:29:51 UTC
  • Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ... page 526. < GoogleBooks > Laurence Cheyne (or Cheney) married Elizabeth Cockayne, widow of Philip le Boteler. 1 son, John; 2 daughters, Elizabeth and Mary (wife of John Allington). www.findagrave.com

Elizabeth Cokayne
BIRTH 1394
Derbyshire, England
DEATH unknown
Cambridgeshire, England
BURIAL
Barnwell Priory
Cambridge, City of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
MEMORIAL ID 174279556

Married December, 1421

The great-great-grandmother of Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, and Catherine Howard, three of the wives of King Henry VIII of England, thus making her 3x's great-grandmother to King Edward VI, the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, and Elizabeth I, the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

Family Members
Parents
John Cokayne
1370–1429
Ida de Grey
1374–1426

Spouse
Lawrence Cheney
1397–1461

Siblings
Reginald Cockayne
unknown–1433

Children
Elizabeth Cheney Say
1424–1473 ·

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Elizabeth Cheney's Timeline

1394
1394
Bury Hatley, Bedfordshire, England (United Kingdom)
1412
1412
Buckingham,,Buckinghamshire,England
1412
Watton at Stone, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
1414
August 15, 1414
Woodhall, Watton, Norfolk, England
1420
April 1420
Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, England (United Kingdom)
1422
1422
Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
1424
1424
Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, England, (Present UK)
1426
1426
Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, England
1430
1430
Probably Fen Ditton, Cambridgeshire, England (United Kingdom)